California State Parks Light Pollution

California

As we previously did articles on the 2024 solar eclipse for the several state parks, and figure that there is an amazing opportunity for mapping those state parks to their Bortle Scale values. With the help of https://www.lightpollutionmap.info, we created the following table to provide information about the entire state parks for California in regards to light pollution and astronomy.

ItemHow Many
Number Of State Parks141
Number of Different Bortle Scales8
Level 1 Bortle Scale State Parks4
Level 2 Bortle Scale State Parks32
Level 3 Bortle Scale State Parks23
Level 4 Bortle Scale State Parks21
Level 5 Bortle Scale State Parks26
Level 6 Bortle Scale State Parks14
Level 7 Bortle Scale State Parks6
Level 8 Bortle Scale State Parks15
Table 1: State Park Info

California has some of the most … in the US. It has the most number of Class 2 Bortle scale sites in the entire US.

Map

Here is a show of the colors of the markers, to know how to read the map.

ColorBortle Scale
BlackLevel 1
Dark PurpleLevel 2
BlueLevel 3
GreenLevel 4
YellowLevel 5
OrangeLevel 6
RedLevel 7
WhiteLevel 8
Table 2: Bortle Scale Map Marker

To learn more about the Bortle Scale, check out this article. The California State Parks official website can be found here.

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